Reinstall Exchange 2003 on SBS 2003 R2?

I have a test server that I'm working with and in the process of playing
with the Public and Private stores (by overwriting them with older stores) I
now have them corrupted. I thought I made a backup of the stores before I
did this but I missed a check box in the backup process.

Bottom line is the public and private stores I have there now will not mount
and I don't have the saved stores. Is there a way to tell Exchange to kill
the existing stores there now and rebuild from scratch OR as a last resort I
can reinstall, but hopefully just the Exchange 2003 portion of SBS 2003 R2
but I'm not sure on those steps/CDs to use. I don't care about any email or
anything because nothing is there with my 3 test users.

Hi Richard:
..
A quick search for "create new mailbox store" reveals that SBS is limited to
one store, and you already have that

My suggestion is to remove Exchange with Add and Remove, then reinstall it.
It would then create a new store.

-Larry


"Richard K" <Rkokoski@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uc6P2HB9IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have a test server that I'm working with and in the process of playing
>with the Public and Private stores (by overwriting them with older stores)
>I now have them corrupted. I thought I made a backup of the stores before
>I did this but I missed a check box in the backup process.
>
> Bottom line is the public and private stores I have there now will not
> mount and I don't have the saved stores. Is there a way to tell Exchange
> to kill the existing stores there now and rebuild from scratch OR as a
> last resort I can reinstall, but hopefully just the Exchange 2003 portion
> of SBS 2003 R2 but I'm not sure on those steps/CDs to use. I don't care
> about any email or anything because nothing is there with my 3 test users.
>

Hi Richard,

Reinstalling Exchange is way overkill. Dismount the current stores, move
them away (the Priv1-files and Pub1-files) including all E00... log files
and restart the MS Exchange System Attendant service. This will create new
blank empty stores.

--
Regards,

Marina Roos
Microsoft SBS-MVP
One of the Magical M&M's
www.smallbizserver.net
Take part in SBS forum: http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=53
"Richard K" <Rkokoski@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uc6P2HB9IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have a test server that I'm working with and in the process of playing
>with the Public and Private stores (by overwriting them with older stores)
>I now have them corrupted. I thought I made a backup of the stores before
>I did this but I missed a check box in the backup process.
>
> Bottom line is the public and private stores I have there now will not
> mount and I don't have the saved stores. Is there a way to tell Exchange
> to kill the existing stores there now and rebuild from scratch OR as a
> last resort I can reinstall, but hopefully just the Exchange 2003 portion
> of SBS 2003 R2 but I'm not sure on those steps/CDs to use. I don't care
> about any email or anything because nothing is there with my 3 test users.
>

Thanks Marina!

What a great place to learn the details.

-Larry

"Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote in message
news:eluaD6B9IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Richard,
>
> Reinstalling Exchange is way overkill. Dismount the current stores, move
> them away (the Priv1-files and Pub1-files) including all E00... log files
> and restart the MS Exchange System Attendant service. This will create new
> blank empty stores.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Marina Roos
> Microsoft SBS-MVP
> One of the Magical M&M's
> www.smallbizserver.net
> Take part in SBS forum:
> http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=53
> "Richard K" <Rkokoski@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uc6P2HB9IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>I have a test server that I'm working with and in the process of playing
>>with the Public and Private stores (by overwriting them with older stores)
>>I now have them corrupted. I thought I made a backup of the stores before
>>I did this but I missed a check box in the backup process.
>>
>> Bottom line is the public and private stores I have there now will not
>> mount and I don't have the saved stores. Is there a way to tell Exchange
>> to kill the existing stores there now and rebuild from scratch OR as a
>> last resort I can reinstall, but hopefully just the Exchange 2003 portion
>> of SBS 2003 R2 but I'm not sure on those steps/CDs to use. I don't care
>> about any email or anything because nothing is there with my 3 test
>> users.
>>
>
>

Great advice Marina! Learn something new every day.

Just to add to your post so if anyone else has this issue. This is what I
did and it worked no problems

1. Delete all of the files as you said (del c:\program
files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\*.* - default location)
2. Restart server
3. After restarted verify all services are running then open up Exchange
System Manager and navigate to the First Storage Group to find the public
and private stores. The stores in my case were not mounted (because they
won't mount).
4. Right click the store and "mount". Exchange will prompt you that files
are missing and that it will create new empty stores. Verify yes
5. Do this with the Private and Public stores.

-Richard

"Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote in message
news:eluaD6B9IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Richard,
>
> Reinstalling Exchange is way overkill. Dismount the current stores, move
> them away (the Priv1-files and Pub1-files) including all E00... log files
> and restart the MS Exchange System Attendant service. This will create new
> blank empty stores.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Marina Roos
> Microsoft SBS-MVP
> One of the Magical M&M's
> www.smallbizserver.net
> Take part in SBS forum:
> http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=53
> "Richard K" <Rkokoski@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uc6P2HB9IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>I have a test server that I'm working with and in the process of playing
>>with the Public and Private stores (by overwriting them with older stores)
>>I now have them corrupted. I thought I made a backup of the stores before
>>I did this but I missed a check box in the backup process.
>>
>> Bottom line is the public and private stores I have there now will not
>> mount and I don't have the saved stores. Is there a way to tell Exchange
>> to kill the existing stores there now and rebuild from scratch OR as a
>> last resort I can reinstall, but hopefully just the Exchange 2003 portion
>> of SBS 2003 R2 but I'm not sure on those steps/CDs to use. I don't care
>> about any email or anything because nothing is there with my 3 test
>> users.
>>
>
>